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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Snowflake vs. SQLite vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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Name

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	22.12
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#192	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.snowflake.com

www.sqlite.org

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Tencent

Initial release

2016

2013

2014

2000

2013

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

hosted

server-less

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

yes

none

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

simple rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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